Anthony Galloway

2 weeks ago | capitalbrief.com | Anthony Galloway

While the audience members at last night's leaders' debate decided the prime minister was the winner, the Liberal Party was quick to declare its man the victor. The result of the Sky News straw poll following the People’s Forum debate — Anthony Albanese 44, Peter Dutton 35, and 21 undecided — was possibly close enough for both sides to declare a draw. Besides, the result broadly mirrors the favourability ratings for both leaders, so it might have reflected their predisposed views on both men.

2 weeks ago | capitalbrief.com | Anthony Galloway

Bandt will release data from the Parliamentary Library suggesting that these changes would allow more than 850,000 additional people to live in a home they own. This would mean 31% of households who rent could move into home ownership, he will say. Bandt will also release analysis from the Parliamentary Library showing that renter households would have paid an average of $6,318 less if a rent freeze had been implemented in August 2022, when the Greens first called for it.

2 weeks ago | capitalbrief.com | Anthony Galloway

In his press conference announcing that he was junking a controversial policy to force public servants out of work-from-home arrangements on Monday morning, Peter Dutton was asked whether it would have ever materialised in the first place if the Coalition had more women in its shadow cabinet. But multiple senior party sources have confirmed to Capital Brief that the policy never went to shadow cabinet, and that some frontbenchers voiced reservations about the move prior to it being announced.

2 weeks ago | capitalbrief.com | Anthony Galloway

It’s the question just about everyone was asking on Friday night after Anthony Albanese phoned into ABC radio to torpedo Peter Dutton’s announcement on getting the Port of Darwin out of Chinese hands. Who had leaked to the Labor campaign that Dutton was on his way to Darwin to announce that he would force China-based company Landbridge to sell the city’s port? Was it a journalist travelling on the Dutton campaign who had the embargoed announcement, or was it a rat in the ranks?

3 weeks ago | capitalbrief.com | Anthony Galloway |Finn McHugh

Donald Trump's 'Liberation Day' dominated the campaign on Thursday as Peter Dutton visited marginal seats in Perth while Anthony Albanese flew from Melbourne to Newcastle. And it will again today after Dutton flew to Sydney last night, where he will attend the Daily Telegraph’s Future Western Sydney event this morning before flying interstate (our tip is either Tasmania or the Northern Territory).